If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

Practical wisdom, " Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.

The secret to happiness is low expectations.

The mistake is to assume that the way it feels at the moment is the way it will feel forever.

Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.

Nature is powerless to put asunder.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

I don't care what people say about me.

Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].

When in doubt, do without.